Renesas hooks up Reality AI tools and e2studio

Renesas has created interfaces between its Reality AI Tools  and its e² studio integrated development environment, enabling designers to  share data, projects and AI code modules between the two programs.

Modules for real-time data handling have been integrated in Renesas MCU Software Development Kits Flexible Software Package (FSP) for RA, Firmware Integration Technology (FIT) for RX and Software Integration System (SIS) for RL78. to facilitate data collection from Renesas kits or customer hardware that use these microcontrollers (MCUs).

This integration enables faster design cycles for artificial intelligence (AI) and tiny machine learning (ML) applications at the edge and endpoint of IoT networks.

Since Renesas acquired Reality AI in 2022, it has made a concerted effort to study, improve, and simplify AI design.

Reality AI Tools, a software environment built to support the full product development of AI applications, allows users to automatically explore sensor data and generate optimized models.

Now Renesas is providing a data pipeline between Reality AI Tools and the e² studio environment used to program Renesas MCUs.

Sensor data collected from Renesas MCU development kits and visualized and labelled in e² studio can now be transferred to associated projects in Reality AI Tools with the push of a button. In addition, users now have the ability to download and integrate AI/ML classifiers generated in Reality AI Tools from within e² studio.

In addition to data transfers, Renesas is providing cross-platform project awareness between embedded and AI environments. Users can now synchronise and transfer lists of projects in e² studio from Reality AI Tools. They can also associate an e² studio project with a Reality AI Tools project and create a new Reality AI Tools project from within e² studio. For a quick overview of this process, customers can watch a video demonstration available here.

Renesas is also building a library of application examples and reference solutions internally and in collaboration with ecosystem partners. The examples offer a proof-of-concept or blueprint for specific use cases. The Renesas AI application library now features over 30 reference solutions for use-cases ranging across real-time analytics, vision and voice applications.

On October 12, 2023, Renesas will present an online, half-day event focused entirely on AI-related topics. In addition to keynotes from executives and industry experts, a lively roundtable discussion is planned. Attendees will also be able to choose from a host of tech talks delving into details of various aspects of AI. Visit the Renesas AI Live event page to register and view the full agenda.

More at: renesas.com/ai.